On the Shift of Li Shen s Poetic Style from Popularization to Elegancy;

Li Shen and the Creation of New YUE-FU Poems;

Modern Social Transformation and Gan Su Gentry;

Binxing property was consisted of governmental appropriation,the gentry s donations,apportioning money,and so on.

Through studying activity the school goes beyond county,and unite many gentry all over the Province.

Squires in the South of Yangtze River and Political Movements in the Ming Dynasty;

In Austen s times,it was one of the most prosperous countryside in England and had dominating middle-class atmosphere of squires.

In the Ming Dynasty, squires were an important social class.

As very important self-government forces in traditional Chinese rural areas,rural gentry had effect on some aspects of social affairs,which is recorded in lots of literature.

This thesis mainly elaborates two major propositions related to rural gentry: one is how the vernacular novels of Ming and Qing Dynasties portray the rural gentry images; the other is the esthetics significance behind this kind of molds .